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Wildfires Will Only Get Worse. We Need Satellite Tracking of Air Pollution

Wildfires Will Only Get Worse. We Need Satellite Tracki...

SIN Jun 16, 2023 0 1

Satellite monitoring of air quality could help reduce premature death from smoke...

Why Does Smoke Turn the Sky Orange?

Why Does Smoke Turn the Sky Orange?

SIN Jun 16, 2023 0 32

The wildfire smoke that smothered the U.S. Northeast last week has surprising co...

Which Creature Was the First to Take a Nap?

Which Creature Was the First to Take a Nap?

SIN Jun 16, 2023 0 24

Animals have been catching z’s for at least half a billion years. Here’s the fir...

Have Astronomers Seen the Universe's First Stars?

Have Astronomers Seen the Universe's First Stars?

SIN Jun 16, 2023 0 35

The James Webb Space Telescope is giving us our first glimpse of stars in the ea...

There's No Evidence for Claims That Environmentally Friendly Investments Are Bad for the Poor

There's No Evidence for Claims That Environmentally Fri...

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 23

There is no evidence for Republican claims that considering the environmental im...

World's Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal

World's Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New D...

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 33

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is already billions ...

Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media

Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 29

In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communicati...

This Tiny Fish Can Recognize Itself in Photos

This Tiny Fish Can Recognize Itself in Photos

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 2

A fish species recognizes its own face digitally edited onto another fish’s body...

AI Chatbots Could Help Provide Therapy, but Caution Is Needed

AI Chatbots Could Help Provide Therapy, but Caution Is ...

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 4

Therapy apps are incorporating AI programs such as ChatGPT. But such programs co...

When Disaster Strikes, Is Climate Change to Blame?

When Disaster Strikes, Is Climate Change to Blame?

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 4

Scientists are specifying how much damage climate change is adding to extreme we...

A New Therapy for Multiple Personality Disorder Helps a Woman with 12 Selves

A New Therapy for Multiple Personality Disorder Helps a...

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 5

Therapy for dissociative identity disorder has aimed to meld many personalities ...

New Tool Reveals How AI Makes Decisions

New Tool Reveals How AI Makes Decisions

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 26

Large language models such as ChatGPT tend to make things up. A new approach now...

Climate Change Has Made California's Wildfires Five Times Bigger

Climate Change Has Made California's Wildfires Five Tim...

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 28

New research finds that the area burned by wildfires during summer in California...

Useful Feedback, More Than Praise, Helps Students Flourish

Useful Feedback, More Than Praise, Helps Students Flourish

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 28

Teacher feedback that gives students options can make them feel empowered

Draconian Laws Deter Pregnant Women from Treating Drug Abuse

Draconian Laws Deter Pregnant Women from Treating Drug ...

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 4

In some states, punitive drug laws require physicians to report a pregnant perso...

This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body

This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entire...

SIN Jun 15, 2023 0 2

An endangered language family suggests that early humans used their bodies as a ...

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